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A 43-year-old woman wearing a wig broke into a Bethlehem home Wednesday night and tried to attack two women with a stun gun, police said. Lainie Daniels, who goes by the nickname "Tuff," was arrested shortly after the 11:30 p.m. attack, which was thwarted by victims Tzeitty Soto and Judith Mercado, according to court records. Soto was at her home at 1315 Livingston St. with Mercado when Daniels forced her way in and tried to attack them, police said. The victims fended off the attack and took the stun gun from Daniels, according to court records.

Police used a stun gun to subdue a Quakertown woman after she repeatedly rammed a state trooper's cruiser during a pursuit that began in Milford Township and ended in Pennsburg, police said. Leslie Ann Szentlaszloi, 43, of the 1000 block of Brookfield Circle, was taken into custody Wednesday after she was observed driving erratically near Quakertown Airport. "Officer [Joseph] Adam cut her off at Second and Main and got out of his car," said Upper Perkiomen police Cpl. F. Robert Seville.

A Franconia Township man who police said was armed with a stun gun outside a Wawa store in Lower Salford Township last week was charged with possession of an illegal weapon. Matthew Martin, 19, of the 700 block of Lower Road, and Matthew Jeinnings, 20, of Cassel Road, Lower Salford, were using the stun gun on each other about 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 8, Lower Salford police said. A stun gun is classified as a prohibitive offensive weapon, police said. Martin, who also was charged with reckless endangerment, was released on $5,000 bail.

State police shocked a 26-year-old Schnecksville man with a stun gun Wednesday because they said he disobeyed orders not to interfere as they served a warrant on a juvenile, who had barricaded himself inside a house. State police said they were assisting Lehigh County juvenile probation officers serve the warrant when the boy barricaded himself inside a house in the 5900 block of Newside Road in Heidelberg Township. Meanwhile, Mark A. Persiani showed up at the scene and became verbally combative when state police told him he could not go into the house, a news release said.

Nazareth police used a stun gun early Friday morning to subdue a Bushkill Township man who they say fought with an officer in the station. John Hendricks IV, 29, of 909 State Park Road was electrically subdued by Officer Jason Gabriel after attempting to fight Gabriel, according to police. Police said Hendricks had been combative for several hours following his arrest, and at one point urinated on Gabriel. It was the first time Nazareth officers have used a stun gun on a suspect, said Deputy Chief Tom Trachta.

Police said during a traffic stop Saturday night, the driver admitted he was drinking and police found a 300,000 volt stun gun inside the car. Kyle M. Taylor, 19, of 2510 Country Top Trail, Bethlehem Township; is free on $2,500 unsecured bail. He is charged with drunken driving, prohibited offensive weapon, possession of a small amount of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, purchase, consumption or transportation of liquor and driving on the right side of the roadway. According to court records, police said they stopped Taylor around 11:30 p.m. on Farmersville Road after seeing the car cross the double yellow lines three times.

An 18-year-old student was shocked into submission by police breaking up a brawl Wednesday at Freedom High School, authorities said. Angelino Aponte, 1243 E. Fourth St., Bethlehem was taken to St. Luke Hospital-Fountain Hill as a precaution after an officer shot him with a stun gun, said Capt. George Boksan of the Bethlehem Township Police Department. "He was very combative," Boksan said. "He was subdued." Aponte was not hurt, Boksan said, and after he was evaluated at the hospital, he was charged with inciting a riot, simple assault, disorderly conduct and harassment.

The man who was kidnapped from a Carbon County bar last week, shocked and beaten, owed two of his alleged abductors $2 million, their lawyers said. Meanwhile, state police charged two more men -- both employees of the men who were allegedly bilked out of the money -- with helping to kidnap Kurt Keiper, 30, of White Haven. Lawyers for Stephen Smith and his stepson, Mark Smith, told District Justice Edward Lewis of Jim Thorpe on Wednesday that Keiper owed their clients $2 million for business loans.

Lower Saucon Township police have received three grants that will be used to buy a stun gun, thermal imaging cameras and portable breath testers. According to a news release: An $18,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program will be used for a thermal imaging camera for a patrol vehicle. The camera senses differences in temperatures and will allow officers to find suspects and evidence. The money also was used for a training session in New Orleans.

A Jim Thorpe man accused of loitering Monday afternoon twice punched a borough police officer so hard that the patrolman became dizzy and began to see stars, the officer said in a arrest affidavit. Patrolman Lee Marzen wrote that he twice used a stun gun before John D. Fronheiser, 19, momentarily stopped fighting. As Marzen tried to arrest Fronheiser, the man again resisted, causing the officer to use "reasonable force to restrain him," the affidavit said.